The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore. The Ravens compete in the National Football League as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division.
The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the American League (AL) East division.
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the 30th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 602,495 in 2018 and also the largest independent city in the country. Baltimore was established by the Constitution of Maryland as an independent city in 1851.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from the city of Baltimore, which had benefitted to some extent from the construction of the National Road early in the century, wanted to continue to compete for trade with trans-Appalachian settlers with the newly constructed Erie Canal (which served New York City), another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania (which would have connected Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (which connected to the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.), and the James River Canal, which directed traffic toward Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia.
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is an international airport in the eastern United States. It serves Baltimore, Maryland, and with Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is one of three major airports serving the Baltimore–Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
The Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area is a combined statistical area consisting of the overlapping labor market region of the cities of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. The region includes Central Maryland, Northern Virginia, three counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, and one county in South Central Pennsylvania.
Baltimore County is the third-most populous county located in the U.S. state of Maryland and is part of the Baltimore metropolitan area and Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area . Baltimore County is part of the Northeast megalopolis, which stretches from Virginia northward to Boston.
The Baltimore Police Department provides police services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The department is organized into ten districts; nine geographical and the Public Housing Section.
The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, colloquially referred to as BPI, Poly, and The Institute, is a U.S. public high school founded in 1883. Though established as an all-male manual trade / vocational school by the Baltimore City Council and the Baltimore City Public Schools, it is now a coeducational academic institution that emphasizes sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics .
Below are select minor league players and the rosters of the minor league affiliates of the Baltimore Orioles:
The Baltimore's Football team activities page. Related with social media posts of Baltimore's games and scheduled events. Match records planned for future dates as well as home and away matches. Plan a trip and experience the excitement of the match on the spot!